Leighton News Highlights Local Visits and Street Upgrades
Artic laaren Eddyville visitors Mrs DePrenger and Synhorst family toured Eddyville and Pella residents Henry and Margaret Veenstra joined Sunday school outing. Leighton street grading finished and new walkways to be installed. Work begins on Mrs Van Heukelem’s residence on former Fleck property. J B Moody farm barn and grain stock destroyed by fire. origin unknown.
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Leighon
G. A. Fleck
J. B. Moody
War chronology begins with European crisis in 1914
The fragment lists dates from late June to early August 1914, noting assassinations in Sarajevo, Austrian and Serbian moves, and the rapid cascade toward World War I. It cites Archduke Francis Ferdinand, various mobilizations, and the entry of Germany, Russia, France, Belgium, and Britain into the conflict, with sequence of events through August 8. It mixes local social notes about Newton and Pella visitors with the opening war timeline.
Mee and family trip to Enid with Mrs Shehee
Mee and family started Tuesday for Enid Missouri to visit sister Mrs Shehee. They will be gone several days by car. Jennie Roten has been visiting her cousin Mrs Ray Newell at Baxter Iowa and relatives in Marshalltown. She returned home Saturday. Dr QO Carpenter and family and Burt Howell and family left Monday for a two week vacation by auto to Keokuk and then Illinois. An ice cream social and show at Curt Burnham's honored Rev Ellis the Methodist pastor with a small program and cake. He will soon leave and it will be happy husband and wife.
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Mee
Enid
Shehee
Jennie
Roten
Ray Newell
Baxter
Marshalltown
Carpenter
Burt
Howell
Keokuk
Illinois
Curt Burnham
Ellis
German armies advance across Belgium and into France
Reports from August 11 to 17 indicate German forces moving through Belgium into northern France with siege operations at Liege forts and Haelen action by British French and Belgian troops. Allied counterclaims include territorial advances by French and Belgian forces in Dinant Saint Marie aux Mines and Thann. Japan presses Tsing Tau and Kiao Chau. Kitchener predicts eight months of war. Wilson opposes loans to warring nations. Russians mass on eastern frontier. Japan ultimatum to Germany.
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Francis Ferdinand
Duchess of
Europe
Czar
Russia
Fotcha
Germany
Kaiser
King George
Nce
George
France
Luxemburg
Belgium
Baltic Sea
England
Liege
Teutonic Alliance
North Sea
Amphion
Lord Kitchener
Alsace
Belgie
Vance
Haelen
London
Japan
Tsing Tau
China
Wilson
Orient
Dinant
Namur
Saint Marie-aux-Mines
Blamont
Cirey
Vosges Mountains
Loraine
Philippines
Kiau-Chau
Iowa Leads Nation in Horses with Sharp Growth
Iowa tops the Union in horse numbers with a substantial rise since 1910. By 1914 the state counted 1,584,000 horses valued at 186 million dollars, up from 1,500,000 head worth 179 million in 1910. The average Iowa horse sits at 119 dollars, down two dollars in the past year. Iowa shows the largest five year increase in horse numbers, with only one exception.
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Iowa
Union
Iowa Weather Crop Bulletin August 16 1914
The report for the week notes normal average temperatures with bright days and cool nights. Rainfall was sparse across most of Iowa, varying by region, with the west central to eastern counties receiving the most. Corn retrogrades with eight to ten million bushels reduced, fodder-saving cuts in southern counties, pastures brown, springs and wells drying, and threshing advancing while fall plowing remains light.
Protecting Livestock From Flies in Farm Practice
The article discusses ongoing efforts to protect cattle and work animals from flies. It notes most repellents provide only temporary relief as flies continually bite and persistence challenges remain for farmers seeking effective solutions.
Contained Remedies For Stable Flies In Barns
A farm bulletin outlines remedies for stable flies including mixtures of fish oil oil of tar oil of pennyroyal and kerosene applied lightly to affected areas on animals. It suggests blankets and leggings for work animals, screened barns brushing with burlap, hedge flytraps in windows, darkening untrapped windows, and refers readers to USDA Farmer's Bulletin No 640 The Stable Fly for full instructions and illustrations.
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Department
Farmer’s Bulletin
U. S. Dept. of Agriculture
Nation Faces Meat Famine Amid Rising Prices
Federal experts examine high living costs as Agriculture Department reports a year’s changes in meat animals. Total head dropped by 4,183,000 with value up $176,530,000. Hog numbers fell 2,185,000, cattle 176,000, sheep 1,763,000. Beef cattle drive value gains of $166,688,000 while swine rise $9,842,000 and sheep fall $1,476,000.
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Department of Agriculture
United States
Heard
August Photo Deals At Foto Shop Ady
August sale offers 25 percent off all photographs Kodaks and cameras. Photos as low as 1,002 per dozen cash only. Yo Foto Shop Ady 33 4
Distressing Burns Sufferer Miss Lotte Tice
A week of severe burn injuries afflicted Miss Lotte Tice after a bucket tipped boiling water from a stove last Wednesday. The scalding water drenched her limbs from body to feet, the left leg and foot the most seriously injured.
Surprise presented to new pastor at First Reformed church
The Rev Huibregtse, recently installed at the First Reformed church, was surprised by about one hundred church members and families. They gathered at the park, rode to the parsonage, invited him to the church, and welcomed him with talks by J Dekker and GC J Duykers, a reading by Lizzie DeWild, a presentation of a writing desk, songs, and refreshments.
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Huibregtse
First Reformed Church
E. Klaaren
John Dekker
Messrs
J. Dekker
J. Duykers
Lizzie DeWild
Eddyville Tribune
Free State Fair Ticket With News Subscriptions
Des Moines News offers a free 50 cent general admission Iowa State Fair ticket with new or renewing mail subscriptions. Last year thousands were guests, and the paper states the deal is unequaled by Iowa dailies. Subscribe for $2.26 daily with Sunday or $2.00 yearly, daily only. Adv 33-5.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Farm Firewood Use Tops Five Million Dollars
A United States Department of Agriculture report shows Iowa consumes 1,267,520 cords of firewood on farms valued at 4,916,500 dollars each year. State total consumption reaches 1,409,360 cords worth 5,640,000 dollars with cities using 143,000 cords and mines 9,275 cords annually. Nationally 85,937,000 cords are used, valued at 250,000,000 dollars. Average wood value is 2.90 per cord nationally and 4.00 in Iowa. farm usage averages 11 cords per farm per year in the U. S.
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Iowa
United States Department of Agriculture
United States
U. S
Diseases Play Havoc With Iowa Hogs
Diseases devastate Iowa hog breeders with 1,778,900 hogs lost valued at $22,414,000 last year. Average death rate 255 per 1000 head, higher than 1918’s 160 per 1000. Latest census dated Jan 1 1914 shows there are …
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Iowa
Department of Agriculture
Iowa's hog industry contrasts with high death rate
A fragment notes Iowa leads in hog numbers yet records the highest death rate, citing 119 deaths per 1,000 and placing the state at the top for both agriculture and mortality among U S regions.
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Iowa
Union
Seed Saving Contest For Pella School Boys
The Womans Federated Club of Pella offers four prizes to seventh grade or younger public school boys for saving the most seed by weight. Eligible seed types are watermelon muskmelon cucumber or sunflower. Prizes total 1 25 1 00 50c and 25c with awards at the Baby Show on October 7 hosted by the club.
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The
Womans Federated Club
Pella
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